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2017 USS Razorback - #1 Engine Start |
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gerry
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Posted: 14 Apr 2017 at 7:07pm |
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Sewer Pipe Snipe
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What, no hearing protection? You can just about smell the diesel vapor.
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Walt,
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gcconnor1
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Old school. We don't need any stinking hearing protection. Just like the hockey goalies not needing any fact protection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tom McNulty
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I remember going to Madison Square Garden to see the Rangers play. Gump was the goalie and never wore a mask. Saw him take pucks to the face. After the game us kids used to hang out at the locker room door to the street for autographs. The Gump looked a bit like Frankenstein. I believe it was Jacques Plant playing for Montreal came to MSG and wore a face mask. A round of boos ensued followed by heating pennies (cigarette lighter) and tossing them on the ice in the goal mouth. Made little holes in the ice to add to Plant's problems.
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Runner485
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They're all deaf anyway, so hearing protection is useless. How ever Walt, I did smell that exhaust, (got that high speed internet). Nice job Razorback crew! BZ |
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Gil
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Was starting an engine part of the qual on your boat? Did you actually do it, or just demonstrate you knew the steps. Also wasn't their a procedure for air starting an engine. My memory is fading quickly.
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gerry
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Both of my boats were SSBNs; mid-80s to mid-90s. I was a bomb-nuke, but had to demonstrate that I *could* start the diesel (never actually got to do it). IIRC, the ginormous Fairbanks-Morse 12-cylinder we had on both boats was LP-Air start only. I could be wrong, like you, my memory is fading quick :(
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Palm Bay Ken
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Do you mean "Airless Start"? That was something we would do frequently, in combination with an "Airless Surface".
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Ken Wiltshire
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Sewer Pipe Snipe
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I am probably wrong, but I believe we started our Fairbanks with 800 pound air. There was, I think, an emergency start where you got five ET's to walk around wringing their hands because without power there would be no hot showers, and the Diesel Gods would start the engine. Or was it to motorize the generator to crank the diesel?
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Walt,
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Gil
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I'm not sure what an airless start is these days, hell I don't even remember 800 lb air.
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